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do centos 6 save more ram than 7?
should i go with 6?
honestly i am not familiar with debian/ubuntu/xxxxx ....
You can run CentOS on 128 MB or even 64 MB RAM OVZ. From my experience, the biggest issue you'll have is yum running oom (which can be painful if it happens in the middle of an system upgrade).
@m3gf
Go ahead and re-install with CentOS 6 32 bit Minimum. Solved all your problem as 32 bit OS use less memory than 64 bit.
@m3gf: Since you don't sound so experienced, I think that you really should rethink your strategy. If you want to run CentOS 7 comfortably, get a VPS with more RAM, at least 1GB. There are many attractive offers around (e.g., recently from Virmach) for such VPSes. 256MB is fine for a number of uses (I have a couple of 256MB VPSes), but not for CentOS 7.
256MB is more than enough for running OS itself, and a lot of services too. Just checked memory usage on KVM vm running squid, unbound, teamspeak, mumble and a couple of openvpn servers and it is below 256MB, while VM itself has 512MB:
OS is centos 7.
I am also using a couple of lowendspirit VM-s with 64MB, 3proxy + unbound+openvpn there, but on those ones i had to use debian, because of already mentioned issue with yum running out of memory (on 64mb it happens even with plugins diabled).
As for running LAMP... it will definitely work with some additional configuration, but may be not worth it with all the offers around, if you value your time and just want things to work it will be easier to just get 1+Gb of ram.
Didn't try full LAMP, but Apache2 runs fine on Debian and 64MB.
thank you , all of you .
LET is a good community .
so, definitely, i would like to have a 512M box instead of learning how to use debian/optimizing centos/xxxx . because i am super lazy .
Yeah, LET is a great community.
AWESOME! i install debian 7.0/64bit minimal, it only takes up 28MB ram! still 227MB available!
now i should install some fancy stuff like LNMP and shadowsocks. haha.
@m3gf Learn how to Debian first. Secure it, update it, and go from there. Avoid anything newer than 7, because systemd sucks.
Debian 8 x64 Minimal, install Dropbear and you'll have ~17MB RAM usage
Welcome to debian world.. Lol
What do you use to install letsencrypt on 128mb vps, have swap?
I have tried but certbot stops in my vps when I install the certificate.
(Process 'cc1' reach up to more than 80% of ram capacity)
I'm pretty sure that's just if you want to use Anaconda as the installer. The text installer will let you install it in less, and it will run in less.
I hope you're using mariadb instead of mysql-server
Thanks @b6688. I shall try this.
I think this is a good decision. time is precious. VPS with more RAM is cheap nowadays, why spend so much effort trying to fit your needs on a small one?
A regular minimal CentOS install uses a mere 19 MB of RAM. And that is in a VM.
What effort?
And that takes what, two, clicks?
the effort for the OP to solve his problem
umm... actually with 256MB, you can run a full blown Kloxo-MR Control Panel, create reseller accout and some shit. Let alone running wordpress.
Use CentOS 6
With all due respect, I don't think RAM is the problem in this case.
May i know which email server are you running? Need to setup one for soon
I read again his first few comments.. yes you are right. he may not even know how to install stuff.
Sure but the answer won't help you a lot (I'm not using the standard ones).
But I have a hint anyway: Have a look at the smtp server the OpenBSD guys built. Heard good things about it. Otherwise: As long as you stay away from sendmail pretty everything should be OK.
Alright, will research around!